Old Feminist Cartoons Predicted Women's Future

The 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920.

We've seen very slow progress over these past 96 years. First, it took a while for everyone to actually be able to vote, especially African American women. And voter suppression is still an issue today, like in the form of voter ID laws.

But since gaining the right to vote, women have begun to fill the government. We're still far from being fully represented, but it's better than the 100 percent of white men we started with.

This year, we have the first ever female presidential nominee for a major party in Hillary Clinton. This is the closest America has ever come to electing a woman for president.

Women had to fight HARD to get the right to vote.

The women's suffrage movement lasted decades before the 19th Amendment was passed.

Many of these anti-suffrage cartoons depicted the suffragists as unattractive. They made them look like old, overly masculine spinsters. This was a means to say "real" women – meaning kind, young, married mothers – did not want the right to vote.

But despite the sexist detractors, women DID gain the right to vote.

And they celebrated this right with glorious, early Art Deco style.

Library of Congress

Some of these cartoons were made to mock suffragists and women's dreams, but that humor doesn't really translate in 2016.